My Peace in 50 is a weekly blog exploring small, evidence-based practices to reclaim peace, presence, and purpose—one week at a time. Rooted in nervous system care, personal reflection, and embodied healing, each post offers insight, encouragement, and a gentle invitation to reconnect with what matters most.
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This week’s blog explores one of the simplest—and most powerful—practices for nervous system regulation: walking meditation.
Not walking to exercise.Not walking to clear your inbox in your head.Not walking to achieve anything at all.
Just walking.
Walking meditation is the practice ...
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This week’s blog explores a concept that can be both comforting and complicated: post-traumatic growth.
When I first encountered this idea, part of me resisted it. Because trauma is not something to romanticize. It hurts. It disrupts. It changes us in ways we never asked for.
But pos...
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This week’s blog is about perfectionism—the kind that looks like competence from the outside, but feels like constant pressure from within.
Recently, my aunt told a story about me at three years old, sitting on the stairs with a box of animal crackers. I carefully opened the box, too...
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This week’s blog is one of the most personal I’ve written in a while.
For much of my life, I believed there was something wrong with me because I froze in moments of acute stress. My mind would go blank. Later, the clarity would come—but not when I needed it most.
I now understand so...
This week’s blog is a personal one.
It’s about sensitivity—how many of us were taught to hide it, toughen up, or manage it away… and how, over time, I’ve come to understand softness not as a liability, but as a form of strength.
In Strength of Softness, I share a childhood story about being a dee...
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This week’s blog came from a practice that once felt a little strange to me—and has since become quietly essential.
It’s about self-holding.
The first time I was invited to give myself a hug in meditation, I was skeptical. It felt awkward. Unnecessary. And yet, within moments, my bod...
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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about purpose—not as something fixed or dramatic, but as something that quietly shifts inside us over time.
This week’s blog, Activating Purpose: Listening for What’s Trying to Emerge, is an invitation to notice those subtle internal changes. The mome...
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For most of my life, I thought calming down was something you did with your mind—take a breath, reframe the thought, talk yourself out of the feeling.
And sometimes that works.
But this week’s blog explores what happens when the body needs to finish what stress started.
In Somatic Sha...
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I’ve spent years teaching and writing about boundaries—especially in leadership. Clear, compassionate boundaries still matter deeply to me, and they always will.
But this week’s blog explores a different layer of boundary work—one that often comes before words, policies, or conversati...
This week’s blog grew out of a practice I used to quietly resist: power poses.
They sounded corny at first. Performative. A little “superhero stance” energy that didn’t quite fit how I move through the world. And yet—when I finally tried one, something shifted. Not dramatically. Not magically. Bu...
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Many of us learned early that being helpful was how we stayed connected, safe, or valued.
This week’s blog, Releasing the Need to “Fix” Everything, explores how fixing can shift from kindness into compulsion—and how stepping back can become an act of trust, care, and nervous-system h...
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For many of us, saying “no” isn’t hard because we don’t know our limits — it’s hard because we’ve learned that safety comes from saying yes.
This week’s blog, Saying “No” Without Guilt, explores how boundaries begin in the body, not in the explanation. I write about noticing depletio...
My Peace in 50 is a weekly blog exploring small, evidence-based practices to reclaim peace, presence, and purpose—one week at a time. Rooted in nervous system care, personal reflection, and embodied healing, each post offers insight, encouragement, and a gentle invitation to reconnect with what matters most.
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